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From: jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard)
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Subject: Re: shell architecture (to glob or not to glob)
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Date: 27 Jan 91 18:31:34 GMT
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In article <1991Jan23.042700.4453@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
>As quoted from <4f5c65f2.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> by vinoski@apollo.HP.COM (Stephen Vinoski):
>+---------------
>| Thank you for reinforcing my opinion of those who call themselves "systems
>| programmers."  Two years?  Sheesh!
>+---------------

Thanks, Stephen. I like you too.

>BTW, I don't know if *any* of this applies to Jay; the real world contains an
>awful lot of complications.

It does indeed...my first Unix system was Microbug...er...Microport's
System V/AT, versions from 1.3 to 2.4. Working around Microport's bugs
was *very* educational. :-(

My experience on small computers, up until the time I started with Unix, was
with CP/M and MS-DOS. I was used to small, clean, fast implementations
that didn't demand much administration and were easy for programmers to
deal with, and that weren't chock full of cryptic commands whose names were
chosen for typing ease rather than ease of figuring out for the uninitiated.
My work experience with MVS-based IBM mainframes didn't help, either. Unix is
like *none* of the systems I had dealt with before, and the mindset was alien
to me.

-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu  | adequately be explained by stupidity.
"Today is different from yesterday." -- State Department spokesman Margaret
Tutwiler, 17 Jan 91, explaining why they won't negotiate with Saddam Hussein